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Show Off ' MJ MEWS OF FLIERS AMD FLYING v - 4 X i AIRPORT CHATTER The War Asset administration has declared the Arlington airport, Arlington Heights, 111., surplus, and the chamber of commerce has taken steps to acquire it. ... A dusting plane operated by DuMac air service serv-ice did a flipflop in one of the Love potato farms near LaSalle, Colo. The pilot wasn't hurt, but the plane whew! . . . Dean Boyd of Willow Hill, 111., purchased a new Taylor-craft Taylor-craft and then built his own farm runway out of crushed limestone. . . . Robert S. Jondahl, World War II pilot, has been placed in charge of the Glasgow, Mont., city-county airport. The "stratoscope," which combines com-bines a panoramic radio transmitter-receiver with a sensitive aneroid diaphragm altimeter, will warn a pilot of approaching planes or the height of any ground obstruction. Such a device could prevent planes flying into skyscrapers and mountains moun-tains during bad weather. Dick Powell, the movie actor, is so crazy about flying that he wants everyone else to learn too. He rents out his own plane for lessons wlien he Is not flying it himself. Planting Trees by Plane The Oregon state forestry department depart-ment will soon know whether or not trees can be planted successfully by plane. Two large tracts have already al-ready been seeded from the air. One is a 1,400-acre area In the great Tillamook burn. The other is an SOO-acre site in Polk county. About 500 acres were planted with Douglas Doug-las fir and Port Oxford cedar. The remaining area was planted with Douglas fir, Sitka spruce and Western West-ern hemlock. Regular checks will be made to determine germination. GRANDMA FLIES PLANE . . . on her 62nd wedding anniversary .recently, Mrs. Anna Hartman, 80, of Glenshaw, Pa., said to her husband: hus-band: "Before I die, I want to go up in an airplane." Photo shows Mrs. Hartman at the controls of the plane soaring over the farm where she lived more than half a century. Lakevicw Now Open to Public The Lakeview, Ore., airport is again open to the public. Following Follow-ing a four-year period of operation by the navy, the port was made available recently to civilian flyers and the general public. The port has an excellent hangar, taxiway and landing facilities. The Krst organization of its kind, the Flying Farmers of Oklahoma, Ok-lahoma, was organized in 1944 wil 38 members. |